Chicago Shakespeare Theater
eBook - ePub

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Suiting the Action to the Word

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Suiting the Action to the Word

About this book

The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater's international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater's own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson; and essays by such noted figures in academe as Clark Hulse, Wendy Wall, and Michael Shapiro.

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Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. copyright
  3. contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I
  7. 1. Chicago First / Terry Teachout
  8. 2. Catapulting Shakespeare into the Present / Regina Buccola
  9. 3. Barbara, Shakespeare, and Me / Jonathan Abarbanel
  10. 4. The Spatial Rhetoric of Chicago Shakespeare Theater / Jonathan Walker
  11. Part II
  12. 5. This One’s for the Girls / Alicia Tomasian
  13. 6. Short Shakespeare! and the Corruption of the Young / Jefferey Gore
  14. 7. Doing Things with Words . . . and, Sometimes, Swords / Peter Sagal
  15. Photo Gallery
  16. Part III
  17. 8. Chicago Shakespeare / Simon Callow
  18. 9. Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Canadians / Richard Ouzounian
  19. 10. The Framing of the Shrew / Gina M. DiSalvo
  20. 11. Michael Bogdanov / Bradley Greenburg
  21. 12. Risky Business / Clark Hulse
  22. Part IV
  23. 13. In Defense of Ruffled Feathers / Michael Billington
  24. 14. “Never did young man fancy” / Peter Kanelos
  25. 15. At Home with Shakespeare / Wendy Wall
  26. 16. Two Merchants / Michael Shapiro
  27. 17. Gender Blending and Masquerade in As You Like It and Twelfth Night / Wendy Doniger
  28. Notes on Contributors
  29. Index